Status of EXA with intel-2.2.0

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi Jesse,

I am also quite interested in EXA on the GMA950/945GM.
Does the current driver still wait after each command sent to the GPU
(i830WaitSynnc), and if so, will this also fixed for GMA900/GMA950
chips or only on 965 based GPUs?

lg Clemens


2007/12/12, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>:
> On Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:23 am Regina Anger wrote:
> > How well does EXA work with the latest intel-2.2.0 driver? Has anybody done
> > some benchmarking? Has the synchronous request problem Carl Worth reported
> > already been fixed in this release?
> >
> > I ask because if it works well I tend to upgrade my system (my xorg
> > installation is too old to run the driver), otherwise I'll wait again.
>
> Well it depends on what you're doing...  We moved to EXA by default because
> XAA doesn't support (and never will) several features that the driver
> provides, like a tiled front buffer, framebuffer compression, Xv, and others.
> However, in certain configurations you may see slowness due to the way Render
> acceleration is implemented; we're working toward a fix now, but in the
> meantime you can use the "ExaNoComposite" option if you see slowness.
>
> Jesse
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